About Dwarf Fortress

Dwarf Fortress promises the deepest, most intricate simulation of a world ever created, and it delivers exactly that on Steam with beautiful new pixel graphics. This is not merely generated geometry but an entire simulated world, complete with the procedurally generated rise and fall of civilizations, personalities, creatures, and cultures. It has been a living project since 2003, continually created and updated with no end in sight, offering effectively infinite hours of gameplay.

At its heart, you generate a unique world and manage a bustling colony of dwarves as they go about their lives, even as they very likely mine their way toward their own eventual demise. This complex mixture of construction, management, and roguelike simulation means every generated world presents a unique challenge, whether it comes from dwarves with their own simulated personalities or from hazards like aquifers. You watch your civilization decline, learn from what went wrong, and try again as something else inevitably breaks.

The depth is difficult to overstate. The combat model accounts for skills, body parts, material properties, aimed attacks, wrestling, pain, nausea, and poison effects, while each world spawns hundreds of animals and monsters, many randomly created, alongside generated poetry and music. As an RPG, simulation, and strategy title, Dwarf Fortress offers PC players a bottomless new hobby.